-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Duda wrote: > If I simply wait a few minutes, or reboot, the keyboard works > fine. 'a few minutes'. that could be anywhere from 2 to 10. use a watch, not your brain. a watch is a more reliable source of time measurement. in 'short time' of wait / reboot, you could have enough heat build up for expansion. you can verify this with a digital ir thermometer. read temp at fan exhaust at start and then when keys start working. remembering that what you are reading will be cooler that what actual components are. and, it could even be at level of an active component, which would heat up more than what ambient air is. if you want to check theory, you could try placing in refrigerator after keys are working. wait about 30 mins, and leaving in refrigerator, try typing to see if keys work. next, is keeping unit warm. place in a cardboard box with a 75 watt or higher lamp. after 30 mins, turn on and see if keys work. do keep laptop clear of lamp so as not to cause any physical damage from heat of lamp. keep in mind, both of these test could fail, but they did work years ago when i did radio and tv services. also, can you plug in an external keyboard? > Once the keys start working, they never fail. I would > like to assume that if there was a flaky connection or HW issue, > it would happen at other times too and not just on the first boot. never 'assume' when it applies to electronics. [or your self.] you have to give consideration to basic physics that heat causes expansion and cold causes contraction. when state of ambient changes from one to other, physical size changes from one to other. peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ **** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJRasg+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAhq+AJ4qs+P0PRhmY5L+ZNKvOo36c0TUXQCfQtM5 DOd6/s5Ieg6UiBft4jl0hU8= =PY/9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
